Indian Jewelry or India Jewellery, Kundan jewelry.

with all kind of stuff to use less gold but still look like gold. Actually this is not only the case in India it’s the same Thailand for instance, there they blend the gold heavily with copper. While fashion trends are changing, gold has remained a constant value in culture.

Since the old times gold in India has been an investment and naturally to pop up social status. In India, body decoration is not restricted to women, nor is its function solely to display wealth. It signifies status and class, expresses royal or religious allegiance, reinforces contracts, glorifies the powerful, is essential to the intimacy of love.

For at least 5,000 years body decoration has adorned men, women and, above all, temple deities, where decoration is part of the bond between the worshipper and the deity. There are beautifully anklets, earrings, necklaces, crowns and more. Over time Indian jewelers' got a high level of technical expertise under the patronage of rulers whose state jewels had great historic designs and along comes the fashion sense.

A very design are Kundan items,

it comes with a blend of semi opaque crystals (Kundan) plus gold, silver and other precious metals. India Kundan jewelry designs have a deep ethnic and traditional flavor, jewels would adorn their whole households including the servants) and, importantly, the great temples.

Kundan Jewelry is an craft,

that brings together precious stones, metal and enamel in a beautiful exotic Rajasthani style. Diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, topaz, garnets, rubies, amethyst, moonstones, spinels and corals are some examples of precious stones used. The stones are cut and polished and set into a gold base with exceptional Rajasthan design, a enameled base is applied to protect the gold from wearing out by friction against the skin. This process also improves the stones' luster becoming real Kundan jewelry. There is also a more cheaply artificial jewels, where glass and colored foil under the stones mimic the polish. The beauty of Kundan jewels creates the value and authenticity. Some silversmith makes Kundan jewels in silver, replacing gold with the classic of silver.

They have different designs applied such as animal, floral, lunar and solar. In certain parts of India Kundan with fruit and vegetable forms are created. In other parts of India a Mughal inspired art is made. This items are created as rakhras (worn on the forehead), necklaces, bracelets, bangles, anklets, earrings and amulets.

This items are made for several parts of the body, all together sixteen types of body decoration called solah shringar. This jewels were used since long time as body decoration showing luxurious lifestyles in Rajasthan, the largest state of India. It looks good and is a real eye catcher which brought the copycats and cheap items to the market for quick money. If you but Kundan items check carefully for authentic pieces. Kundan is one of the oldest precious items making technique in India. In present days its very popular in the fashion world, as women's fashion accessories and weddings and formal gatherings, or just to look good when going out.

To that end, hundreds of

jewelers were permanently employed by temples. The Brihadishvara Temple in Thanjavur, for example, built by the powerful Chola ruler Rajaraja I, has eleventh century inscriptions carved on the walls detailing the gem experts' many classifications for pearls, diamonds and rubies.

When the jewel filled treasuries became goals for northern invaders, the temples added fort-like walls, most notably around the hugely wealthy Ranganatha devotees pay to obtain a private viewing of a deity in his or her richest outfit at a temple at Sringangam. Even today, fine jewels continues to be commissioned for the godsand.

Indian bridal Jewelry

is something, which makes a marriage really sparkling. There is a wide range of bridal jewelry works and designs made for this special moment which maybe only come once in a lifetime so it needs something very special. The valuable family gold keeps on passing from one generation to the next. Families who can afford it hold the gold for decades that gives a large variety of styles over the years. Keeping historical family jewels over hundreds of years is not only happen in India but also elsewhere. The interesting point is to see this wide variety with its old style elegance and the intricate skill of the old masters who created this antique bangles, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, nose rings, pendants, toe rings, rings, anklets and others